Protected Areas (PAs) are critical instruments in preserving biodiversity and, because of their high-quality environmental conditions, they have always been attractive for ecotourism, the natural-based element holiday activities that minimizes “antagonistic” impacts tourism on environment. However, many PAs lack a specific management plan or do not include future effects local human population....

The 2030 zero-net emission target in the E.U. demands a significant improvement energy performance of building stock. This study analyses adoption connected thermostats and Home energy-management system solutions (HEMS) as an effective means to tackle residential footprint. It reviews main features HEMS systems terms technology, cross-study performances, obstacles widespread adoption; adopts ca...

Scenarios are widely used to specify the desired behavior of a system, but managing the large collection of scenarios that frequently result and making a scenario-based specification complete are challenging tasks. Scenario networks address these challenges while retaining the many advantages of scenarios during software specification activities. A scenario network is a collection of scenarios ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be widely used for managing various scenarios existing in social, industrial and numerous environmental management systems. They have been widely used in environmental monitoring and management applications and have also found application in disaster management scenarios. One of the greatest problems faced by the scientific community in organizing data collec...